How Does A Choreographer Make Dance About Her Hometown Getting Ravaged By A Wildfire?
Alice Topp, a former principal dancer and choreographer-in-residence at the Australian Ballet, already had the idea of basing her first commission for Houston Ballet...
How Have The Great Pyramids Survived Millennia Of Earthquakes? By Design, Of Course
“The Great Pyramid behaves as a single, cohesive unit that naturally vibrates at a fundamental frequency of approximately 2.3 Hz. The frequency difference prevents...
Spotify Has Become A Huge Player In Audiobooks
Spotify announced that the total number of hours of audiobooks listened to on the service are up 60% year-over-year, with one million people having paid...
Opera Is Being Reinvented In The Australian Outback
Song has always been a part of storytelling in our country. And perhaps, in remote towns, opera finally sheds the elitism that has followed...
Margot Wellington, Campaigner Who Helped Save Grand Central Station From Wrecking Ball, Has Died...
“During her seven-year tenure (as executive director of the Municipal Art Society), she led pioneering campaigns to form historic landmark districts, renovate blighted blocks...
Hollywood Largely Skipped Cannes This Year. Did Anyone Miss Them?
Whether you were a sales agent eyeing a leisurely buyer’s market or a freelance journalist picking up fewer interview commissions than usual, this felt...
The Economics Of Late Night TV Are Moving To Streaming
Roughly 20% of lost late night dollars ends up going to YouTube, data insights company Guideline found last year, with 6% going to Amazon...
The Special Kind Of Knowledge That Can’t Be Taught
It’s not the kind of knowledge that you gain from reading a textbook or listening to a lecture, nor is it the kind of...
Royal Shakespeare Company Gets An Extra £2 Million For Touring England
Arts Council England, the national funding body, gave the RSC £2 million for two large-scale Shakespeare tours in 2028 and 2030 to regional theatres...
NYC Culture As Basic City Infrastructure
Right now, culture represents just 0.21% of the city’s budget, below its long-term average. Recent investments have been meaningful, including $75 million in last year’s...
AI Is Homogenizing Our Writing And Our Thinking
Yes, we are standing to sound like LLMs in our writings. This may not be as bad if this was just restricted to how...
NPR Lays Off Journalists
NPR has laid off 10 journalists, including some veteran reporters, in an attempt to save money and reorganize the newsroom. It also is buying...
The Great Louvre Jewel Robbery Is Already A Book With A Movie Deal
The theft only happened last October; none of the indicted suspects have yet been tried. Yet a book by three investigative journalists, Main basse...
NPR CEO Katherine Maher Thinks Maybe We Should Just Accept Federal Defunding Of Public...
“I don't think (we'll) see the Corporation for Public Broadcasting come back, and … I wouldn't necessarily advise that ... we advocate for (that),...
Omaha To Get Its Own Dedicated Public Radio Station
“Nebraska Public Media (will) launch a new Omaha-focused station on June 15, expanding its statewide service with a dedicated FM signal designed specifically for...
Florida Legislature Approves $20 Million In Arts Funding (Will DeSantis Veto It Again?)
“The Legislature wants the first $12.45 million ... to go to arts groups recommended by Secretary of State Cord Byrd. The remaining money would be...
Libraries Plead With Big Five Publishers To Rethink E-Book Pricing
“Five public library organizations from the U.S. and Canada … (are urging) publishers to negotiate usage-based e-book lending models as well as perpetual-use options.”...
Interlochen Will Demolish Lodge Once Named For Jeffrey Epstein
The Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Michigan summer-intensive camp and year-round boarding school — which Epstein attended as a teenager and where, as...
Seattle Symphony Appoints New CEO
Jeremy Rothman, who for 18 seasons has been artistic administrator at the Philadelphia Orchestra, will begin in Seattle as of September 1. He succeeds...
Why The U.S. Radio Industry Opposes Year-Round Daylight Savings Time
You know how numerous radio stations have to reduce their broadcast power, and a few even have to go off the air, during non-daylight...
Knoxville Reverses Its Ban Of Alex Haley’s “Roots” From School Libraries
“Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk said the district will return the (Pulitzer-winning) 1976 novel to school library shelves, walking back a decision that (led...
Miles Davis’ “Kind Of Blue” Is The Best-Selling Jazz Album Of All Time. He...
When I tell people that I missed what I was trying to do on Kind of Blue, that I missed getting the exact sound...
Eyewitness Memory Is Unreliable. Or Is It?
The science of memory has been shifting. A re-evaluation of real-world criminal cases and laboratory experiments suggests that an eyewitness’s confidence in a specific memory can...
Spanish Government Demands Audit Of Reina Sofia Museum Collections
Spain’s government is turning up the pressure on the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory,...
Facing Serious Cash Crunch, Sydney Dance Company Builds Up Its Teaching Offerings
Despite reaching new artistic heights, Australia’s leading contemporary dance troupe has posted four annual deficits in a row, totaling $5.2 million (US$3.7 million) and...
